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Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career Hardcover – Illustrated, August 6, 2019
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Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.
In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education—a lifelong mastery of fresh ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner.
The challenge of learning new skills is that you think you already know how best to learn, as you did as a student, so you rerun old routines and old ways of solving problems. To counter that, Ultralearning offers powerful strategies to break you out of those mental ruts and introduces new training methods to help you push through to higher levels of retention.
Scott H. Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself—among them Benjamin Franklin, chess grandmaster Judit Polgár, and Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymath Nigel Richards, who won the French World Scrabble Championship—without knowing French.
Young documents the methods he and others have used to acquire knowledge and shows that, far from being an obscure skill limited to aggressive autodidacts, ultralearning is a powerful tool anyone can use to improve their career, studies, and life.
Ultralearning explores this fascinating subculture, shares a proven framework for a successful ultralearning project, and offers insights into how you can organize and exe - cute a plan to learn anything deeply and quickly, without teachers or budget-busting tuition costs.
Whether the goal is to be fluent in a language (or ten languages), earn the equivalent of a college degree in a fraction of the time, or master multiple tools to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.
- Print length304 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarper Business
- Publication dateAugust 6, 2019
- Dimensions6 x 1.01 x 9 inches
- ISBN-10006285268X
- ISBN-13978-0062852687
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“How do you master a difficult subject more quickly than by sitting through years of classes? Read Ultralearning for specific directions on structuring and absorbing complex topics in record time. This short book provides you with a step-by-step guide to becoming an ultra fast learner.” — Robert Pozen, author of Extreme Productivity and Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management
“Ultralearning is the best book on learning I’ve ever read. It’s a beautifully written, brilliantly researched, and immediately useful masterpiece. If you are looking for the magic match to help light your learning, Ultralearning is it. If you want to learn anything, do yourself a favor and read this book. Now.” — Barbara Oakley, author of A Mind for Numbers and co-author and co-instructor of Learning How to Learn
This book is an invaluable tool to help you master complicated skills in a short period of time. Read Ultralearning and level up your life! — Chris Guillebeau, bestselling author of The $100 Startup and The Happiness of Pursuit
“Ultralearning is like a superpower in our competitive economy. Read this book! It will change your life.” — Cal Newport, author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work
“A truly great book about learning. Riveting, useful, practical, and applicable to anyone ready to learn something at their own pace. Ultralearning shows you exactly how to learn better than you thought possible.” — Derek Sivers, author of Anything You Want
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Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.
In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education—a lifelong mastery of fresh ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner.
The challenge of learning new skills is that you think you already know how best to learn, as you did as a student, so you rerun old routines and old ways of solving problems. To counter that, Ultralearning offers powerful strategies to break you out of those mental ruts and introduces new training methods to help you push through to higher levels of retention.
Scott H. Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself—among them Benjamin Franklin, chess grandmaster Judit Polgár, and Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymath Nigel Richards, who won the French World Scrabble Championship—without knowing French.
Young documents the methods he and others have used to acquire knowledge and shows that, far from being an obscure skill limited to aggressive autodidacts, ultralearning is a powerful tool anyone can use to improve their career, studies, and life.
Ultralearning explores this fascinating subculture, shares a proven framework for a successful ultralearning project, and offers insights into how you can organize and execute a plan to learn anything deeply and quickly, without teachers or budget-busting tuition costs.
Whether the goal is to be fluent in a language (or ten languages), earn the equivalent of a college degree in a fraction of the time, or master multiple tools to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.About the Author
Scott Young is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Ultralearning, a podcast host, computer programmer, and an avid reader. Since 2006, he has published weekly essays to help people learn and think better. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Pocket, and Business Insider, onthe BBC, at TEDx, and other outlets. He doesn’t promise to have all the answers, just a place to start.
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- Hardcover : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 006285268X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0062852687
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Scott H. Young is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Ultralearning, a podcast host, computer programmer, and an avid reader. Since 2006, he has published weekly essays to help people learn and think better. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Pocket, and Business Insider, on the BBC, and at TEDx among other outlets. He doesn’t promise to have all the answers, just a place to start. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.
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I read this book more from the perspective of a teacher rather than a learner. I may use the concepts at some point to do my own ultralearning projects, but since I am creating content to teach people new skills, I'm looking for ways to make my content more engaging. I want to know the best ways to teach people and help them learn what I'm teaching.
One of the things I really liked about this book was that the author provided practical information about ultralearning. He didn't just present a bunch of concepts; he gave strategies and tactics for getting results.
The Nine Principles of Ultralearning
Here are the nine principles of ultralearning, along with some things I've learned about each principle:
1. Metaleaning: First Draw a Map
Learn how to learn a topic. Find out how others who successfully learned the topic learned it. Don't just try the first tactic you discover because other tactics may help you learn more effectively.
2. Focus: Sharpen Your Knife
Focus on starting your project. Focus on sustaining progress on your project. Focus on ensuring that your learning is directed at what you need to learn to increase knowledge, not just make yourself feel good by focusing on the basics.
3. Directness: Go Straight Ahead
Learn by using the new skill you're trying to acquire in a situation similar to or exactly like the situation you would actually use the skill. For example, learning a new language is more direct when you try to use the language in conversation with someone rather than just listening to lessons or using fun apps.
4. Drill: Attach Your Weakest Point
Knowing what you really need to learn and deliberately practicing. Focus more on the areas that you are deficient in to improve your weakest skills. Practice an isolated component.
5. Retrieval: Test to Learn
Learning something doesn't do you any good if you can't remember it when you need it. Testing yourself on what you've learned is best done by doing retrieval exercises or tests rather than referring to books or content about the subject. Do your best to extract the information you are learning from your memory to help form long-term memories of the content.
6. Feedback: Don't Dodge the Punches
Find ways to get honest feedback from your learning initiatives through tests. It's easy to get feedback that stokes your ego, but this feedback does not help you grow and learn. Some feedback is noise and is not helpful. Other feedback is a signal and can help you build up the skill you're trying to learn by letting you know about things you need to improve upon.
7. Retention: Don't Fill a Leaky Bucket
Spending a lot of time learning something is almost useless if you don't retain what you've learned. Some things are essential to keep in your memory, while others can be looked up if needed in the future.
8. Intuition: Dig Deep Before Building Up
Knowing a skill so well that you can apply it to different situations. Having such a deep understanding of a subject, you know all the possibilities to solve a problem and when to use which solution.
9. Experimentation: Explore Outside Your Comfort Zone
Experimentation helps you learn because it forces you to try new things to accomplish a task or goal. Experimentation expands your knowledge and understanding of the topic in unexpected ways. Experimentation is accomplished by using different resources, techniques, or styles.
Some of my favorite highlights in the book:
• "Passive learning creates knowledge. Active practice creates skill."
• "Your deepest moments of happiness don't come from doing easy things; they come from realizing your potential and overcoming your own limiting beliefs about yourself."
• "What could you learn if you took the right approach to make it successful? Who could you become?"
• "Flow is the enjoyable state between boredom and frustration; when a task is neither too hard nor too easy."
• When learning, "Sometimes what's the most fun isn't very effective and what's effective isn't easy."
• "…enjoyment tends to come from being good at things."
• "…one of the most important educational tasks is to teach self-education."
• "It is when one learns to do something that nobody else can do that learning becomes truly valuable."
• "The better one gets, the more one recognizes how much better one could become."
Of course, there's a lot more in the book, and I have more questions than answers after reading it. Since ultralearning is a personal thing, I'm not sure I'll be able to apply it strictly to teaching others, but I've developed some ideas about how to improve my content by reading this book.
If you truly want to master a skill, you may want to check out Ultralearning and follow the book's principles, tactics, and strategies to start your own ultralearning project.
1. I read the "original" book on how to do something. Example: For a book on sharpening people skills - How to Win Friends and Influence People. Most books today on people skills are reiterating something that Dale Carnegie wrote in his book.
2. I read the newest book that takes a massive amount of material and distills it into actionable, fundamental points. Example: Ultralearning. You would have to read dozens of books to get what Scott Young has organized in his latest book. Not only that, you would then have to separate the signal from the noise.
That being said, Ultralearning could probably serve two purposes well: it would either be the only book you will ever read on the subject and enough to get you through your self-guided educational journey or, it would be a primer on ultralearning and you could then go down the rabbit hole and read dozens of more books on the subject.
While I "knew" all of the things Scott has presented in Ultralearning, he has done a masterful job of organizing the latest research, combined with his own experience in learning projects, and formatted it into a roadmap you can use to embark on learning projects yourself.
If I had a complaint, I would say that it is not a very easy book to read. Cal Newport's books are the same for me - I just cannot breeze through them like I would something like The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. This is not a dealbreaker, and in fact, probably lends to the depth of information presented. It's not as easy to read because it has a greater depth of information and is more applicable.
I consider myself an autodidact, and I believe the book skews slightly toward being more easily understood by those who are already invested in self-guided learning. For the reader who wants to become a self-guided learner, the book is still a great introduction and is not highly technical or dry.
If you are still on the fence, I would recommend reading Scott's blog which has very HQ material published constantly. Also, it may be helpful to look up his MIT Challenge and Year Without English learning projects to get a better idea of what Ultralearning is centered around.
tl;dr - if you want to improve your ability to learn things quickly - a rare and valuable skill in today's fast-paced world - buy this book, read it at least twice, and use it to design learning projects. for ~$20, it will give you a potentially unlimited ROI.
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If you dont have any knowledg about ultralearning this is the only book you need to buy. It is a practical guide to start your own ultra learning proyect.